Tree 10-35 m high and 20-70 cm ø; occasionally with buttresses up to 4 m high. Leaves oblanceolate, obovate-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, 9-40 by 3-12½ cm, slightly hairy beneath especially on the midrib, glabrescent; base attenuate; apex short-acuminate or acuminate; nerves 10-25 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform; petiole 1½-4(-6) cm. Panicles 7-24 cm long, hairy, glabrescent; bracts broad-ovate, or lanceolate, c. ⅔ mm long, slightly hairy outside; pedicels ¾-2 mm, articulated. Flowers white. Calyx caducous, lobes broad-ovate, or subrotund, ⅔-l mm long. Petals oblong, ovate-or elliptic-oblong, 3-4 by 1-1½ mm. Stamens 2-3½ mm; filaments 1½-2 mm, apical part contracted and whitish; anthers ¾-l mm, sagittate, lower ¼-⅓ sterile. Disk ⅔-l mm long. Carpels 1½-2 mm long. Drupe red when ripe (KOSTERMANS 5980), sublentiform, 7-10 mm ø.
In forest, occasionally on limestone, chiefly in the lowland, sometimes up to 400 m. Fl. March-Sept.; fr. May-Dec.
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